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Dwork, May 2020 DEBÓRAH DWORK (current through May 2020) [email protected] (203) 887-4444 EDUCATION Ph.D. University College, London M.P.H. Yale University B.A. Princeton University EMPLOYMENT 2020- Senior Scholar-in-Residence Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies The Graduate Center-CUNY 2018-2020 Senior Research Scholar Inaugural Rose Professor of Holocaust History Founding Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Clark University 2016-2018 Rose Professor of Holocaust History Professor of History Founding Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Clark University 1996-2016 Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Rose Professor of Holocaust History Professor of History Clark University 1991-1996 Associate Professor Child Study Center, Yale University 1989-1991 Visiting Assistant Professor Child Study Center, Yale University 1987-1989 Assistant Professor Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health University of Michigan 1984-1987 Visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of History, University of Michigan (1984-86) Dept. of Public Health Policy (1986-87) - 1 - Dwork, May 2020 GRANTS AND AWARDS 9-12/2019 Bildner Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University 2017-18 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (invitational) 2015-18 Grant, Cathy Cohen Lasry (Clark University administered) 2016-17 Grant, Anonymous Foundation (Clark University administered) 2009-11 Grant, Shillman Foundation 2007-08 Grant, Shillman Foundation 2003-05 Grant, Tapper Charitable Foundation 1993-96 Grant, Anonymous Donor (Yale University administered) 1994 Grant, New Land Foundation 1993-94 Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation 1992-94 Grant, Lustman Fund 1992 Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities 1991-1992 Grant, Lustman Fund 1989 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1988 Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies 1988 Grant, Rackham Faculty Grant for Research (Univ. of Michigan) 6-9/1987 Grant, American Philosophical Society 6-9/1985 Fellow, Wellcome Trust 1984 Fellow, Smithsonian Institution 1979-1983 Fellow, Wellcome Trust PUBLICATIONS Books A Boy in Terezín: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, Introduction and annotations. (Evanston, IL.: Northwestern University Press, 2011). Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946, Co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt (N.Y.: Norton, 2009). Calmann-Lévy, Mémorial de la Shoah series [French edition], 2012; Grand Livre du Mois selection. Uitgeverij Elmar [Dutch edition], 2012. Chosen selection by History Book Club, Military Book Club, Book of the Month Club, 2. ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Finalist. The Terezín Album of Mariánka Zadikow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008) An annotated, edited, facsimile edition, with historical introduction. Holocaust: A History, Co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt (N.Y.: Norton, 2002); London: John Murray [British edition], 2003; Uitgeverij Boom [Dutch], 2003; Imago Editora [Portuguese edition], 2004; EDAF [Spanish edition], 2004. Recorded for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) in 2005. Holocaust was chosen by Publisher’s Weekly for its Non-fiction Best Books List for 2002. Chosen selection by the History Book Club and Traditions Book Club; Finalist, National Jewish Book Award. - 2 - Dwork, May 2020 Voices and Views: A History of the Holocaust. An edited, annotated, and illustrated collection, with introductions; a scholarly project undertaken for public service. (N.Y.: Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, 2002). Distributed: University of Wisconsin Press. Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present, Co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt, (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996 and revised and updated edition 2008; London: Yale University Press [British edition], 1996; Uitgeverij Boom [Dutch], 1997 and revised, updated edition published by Verbum in 2018; Pendo [German], 1998; Argo [Czech], revised, expanded edition, 2006; Warsaw: Swiat Ksiazki [Polish], 2011). The Dutch edition was supported by the Prins Bernhard Fonds in recognition of its “major contribution to Dutch culture.” The German edition was voted the number 1 title on the (German) National Book Critics list for November, 1998 and Newsweek (August 2009) voted it one of the Ten Best Books about Poland during World War II. Emmy-award nominee documentary based on this work, “Auschwitz: The Blueprints of Genocide,” produced by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) and aired both in Britain and in the US as "Nazi Designers of Death" on the “Nova” program. Central source for BBC seven-part series, “Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State,” directed by Laurence Rees. Recipient of the National Jewish Book Award and the Society of Architectural Historians’ Spiro Kostoff Award. Children With A Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991); Beck Verlag [German], 1994; Marsilio Editori [Italian], 1994; Uitgeverij Boom [Dutch], 1998; Sogen Sha [Japanese], 1999). Finalist, National Jewish Book Award. Recorded as a cassette book by the Library of Congress for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Documentary based on this work and called "Children With A Star" produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC). Central source for two television network after school special programs for children on the Holocaust. Excerpt from German edition included in a national school curriculum for high school education on the Holocaust. Excerpt included in 2001 Holocaust Remembrance Project Teacher's Resource Guide web site. War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children: A History of the Infant and Child Welfare Movement in England, 1898-1918 (London: Tavistock, and New York: Methuan, 1987). Book Chapters, Articles, and Short Monographs “Holocaust Studies: A Compass,” in Advancing Holocaust Studies, eds. Carol Rittner and John Roth (N.Y.: Routledge, 2020). “A Critical Assessment of a Landmark Study,” in Holocaust Education 15 Years On: Challenges, Issues, Opportunities, eds. Andy Pearce and Arthur Chapman (London and New York: Routledge, 2019). Book version of: “‘What do Students Know and Understand about the Holocaust?’ A Critical Assessment of a Landmark Study by the Centre for Holocaust Education,” invited contribution to a special issue of Holocaust - 3 - Dwork, May 2020 Studies, eds. Arthur Chapman, Stuart Foster, and Andy Pearce. On-line version: DOI:10.1080/17504902.2017.1296083. March 2017. “Flight and Exile,” in A Companion to Nazi Germany, eds. Shelley Baranowki, Armin Nolzen, and Claus-Christian Szejnmann (Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2018). Project Report. I served on the Steering Committee of the IHRA multi-year Project: Research on Education about the Holocaust. Report posted in January 2016. Published version: International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (ed.), Research in Teaching and Learning About the Holocaust: A Dialogue Beyond Borders (Berlin: Metropol, 2017). “Introduction” to Nate Leipciger, The Weight of Freedom (Canada: The Azrieli Foundation, 2015). “To Work with the History of the Holocaust,” in Ivana Macek, ed., Engaging Violence: Trauma, Memory, and Representation (Routledge, 2014). In Spanish translation: “Trabajar con la historia del Holocausto,” Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, September-December 2016. “Raising their Voices: Children’s Resistance through Diary Writing and Song,” in Patrick Henry, ed., Jewish Resistance to the Nazis (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press, 2014). “Rescue,” in The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, eds. Peter Hayes and John Roth (Oxford and N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2011). “Refugee Jews and the Holocaust: Luck, Fortuitous Circumstances, and Timing,” in Jewish Perspectives on the “Forced Emigration” Period (1938/39 to 1941) until Deportation and Ghettoization, eds. Susanne Heim, Beate Meyer, Francis Nicosia, (Wallstein-Verlag, 2010). “The Challenges of Holocaust Scholarship: A Personal Statement,” in Voices of Scholars, ed. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs (Cracow: Jagiellonian University Center for Holocaust Studies, 2009). Auschwitz and the Holocaust, The Hugo Valentin Lectures IV, Uppsala University (Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2007). “Sala’s World, 1939-1945: Sosnowiec, Schmelt’s Camps, and the Holocaust,” in Letters to Sala (N.Y.: New York Public Library, 2006), pp. 51-77. Co-authored with R. J. van Pelt. “Auschwitz,” Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Ketter Publishing, 2006). Co- authored with R. J. van Pelt. “Foreward,” in Harry Mulisch, Criminal Case 40/61: An Eyewitness Report on the - 4 - Dwork, May 2020 Eichmann Trial, trans. Robert Naborn (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), ix – xxiv. “A Distant Shore: The Holocaust and Us,” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Spring 2005. Co-authored with R. J. van Pelt. “Agents, Contexts, and Responsibilities: The Massacre at Budy,” in Catastrophe and Meaning: Rethinking the Holocaust at the End of the 20th Century, eds. Moishe Postone and Eric Santer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 154- 69. “Die verschlungene Strasse in Auschwitz,” (co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt), in Bruchlinien, ed. Gertrude Koch, (Köln and Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999), 181-200. “Custody and Care of Jewish Children in the Post-War Netherlands: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Hegemony,” in Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust III: Memory, Memorialization, Denial, ed. Peter Hayes (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999), 109-137. “The Politics of a Strategy for Auschwitz-Birkenau,”